While searching for medical remedies, I found that an Remedia Pharmacy (Eisenstadt Austria) also produces a historic Larch rosin for bowed gut strung instruments. The recipe is from Francesco Galeazzi's treatise 'Elementi teorico pratici di Musica' - 1796(?). It is perhaps something to share with histraic bowed string players. http://www.remedia-homeopathy.com/en/homeopathy/Violin-rosin/p2144.html
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